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During the war the Germans placed a high value on the lr.ood-using industries of Norway, and for that reason left their equipment and productive capacity practically intact. Tl-reir demands for wood products from Norway were large, but no greater than the country's prewar poduction. Delivery of goods, ho'ivever, fell far short of Nazi expectations. During 1940 and 1941 Norway exported very large quanti-. ties of ,forest products to Germany, but in 1942 and subsequent years exports dropped off dramatically. Bi this time prewar stocks of logs and pulpwood had been used up, and low wages, poor living conditions, lack of skilled labor, and sabotage combined to reduce r'voods operations to a small fraction of their normal scale.

As a result Norway is emerging from the war with her forest industries in good running order, and her forest wealth actually increased because, during the period 1941 and 1945, nerv growth exceeded by a substantial margin the volume cut. Before the tvar Norivay managed her forests so that the annual growth exceeded the annual cut by a very small margin-about bne per cent. To do this, approximately 2l per cent of the total volume of standing timber was cut annually.

p"r,Aorr.J lleaJion

George J. Hawley, Atkinson-S tutz Co., San' Francisco, vacationed for trvo u'eeks in Yosemite National Park.

Dick Schiller. Hammond l-umber on a buying trip in Oregon. Co., Los Angeles, is

Dell Winsor and Company, Burbank, Pass, Oregon.

Norman Winsor of the Dell Lumber recently made a business trip to Grants

C. R. (Bob) Taenzer,. American Hard'ivood Co., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Taenzer, will leave September D for Chicago and Nerv York. They will be gone about a month, and rn'ill attend the annual convention of the National Hardrvood Lumber Association and the Distributing Yards convention in Chicago, October 3 and 4.

Tony Morabito, owner of the San Francisco 49'ers, and his partner, Allen E. Sorrell in Lumber Terminal, Inc., San Francisco, traveled to San Diego for the exhibition game against the Los Angeles Dons, August 24.The 49'ers